Prepare to Defend Yourself ... How to Navigate the Healthcare System and Escape with Your Life

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Prepare to Defend Yourself… How to Navigate the Healthcare System & Escape with Your Life This book’s publication is supported by the Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health, whose mission is to improve the health of communities through education, research, service, outreach, and creative partnerships. texas a&m university press • college station PREPARE DEFEND YOURSELF DEFEND DEFEND to . . . How to Navigate the Healthcare System & Escape with Your Life MATTHEW MINSON, MD Copyright © 2014 by Matthew Minson All rights reserved First edition Manufactured in the United States of America. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). Binding materials have been chosen for durability. library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Minson, Matthew, 1961– author. Prepare to defend yourself … how to navigate the healthcare system and escape with your life / Matthew Minson, MD. pages cm — Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62349-115-4 (paper, with flaps : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62349-162-8 (e-book) 1. Medical care—United States—Popular works. 2. Patient participation—United States. 3. Medical personnel and patient—United States. I. Title. RA395.A3M533 2014 610.7306'9—dc23 2013036447 For Kelli, without whom it all would be insufferable ...